John McCain has gone off the deep end

I always knew that John McCain did not always like or trust Valdimir Putin, but the recent statements coming from the Senator from Arizona would have one think that the Russians tanks were sitting just outside of Phoenix. Did I miss something, I know Georgia is very near and dear to Americans being a democracy and all(is it really??), but why is he taking it so personally.

I have heard stories of John McCain’s temper, but could never picture how it could effect his being an effective President. But his recent statements, coupled with his tendency to take unsubstantiated statements from the media and Saakashvilli as facts and his own hot headedness, for the first time I am actually glad that Bush is the President instead of McCain. If he was there we would probably be already preparing for Armageddon.

Here are a few examples of his statements today excerpted from his interview with editors of U.S. News

Republican presidential candidate John McCain kept up his criticism today of the Russian invasion of Georgia, noting that he spoke again this morning with Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili and discussed the latest abuses by Russian troops. “There is a clause in this cease-fire that the Russians are using as a loophole for maintaining their presence there,” McCain said in an interview with U.S. News editors.

No Shit Sherlock, that is why it is called negotiations.

The Arizona senatorsaid he has talked to Saakashvili every day during the current crisis. McCain also referred to media reports that “the Russian troops reeked with alcohol and are looting.

Maybe you should campaign in Georgia for their Presidency and just to show that he has not forgotten about ordinary Americans while he fighting for the Georgians, here is another excerpt -

Pivoting to the presidential campaign, McCain said: “It’s very clear that the overriding issue is the economy. Americans are hurting very badly…but I also think that national security is an underlying issue because we have just found out in the last few days that we live in a very dangerous world and there are situations which can arise which were not readily foreseen, certainly not by average citizens…that require experience, knowledge, and judgment.

Never thought I would say it twice but thank your lucky stars George Bush is the President.

Who let the Dogs out??

Senator McCain proclaimed “Today we are all Georgians” at a campaign stop yesterday in PA. WOW, when did that happen, I did not get any notice of any changes in my citizenship. I am absolutely amazed by this recent revival among the neo conservatives in the last few months. With the Iraq war stabilizing a bit since the troop surge and Barack Obama’s poll numbers stalling since the Democratic primaries, the Neo-conservatives think that that maybe they didn’t screw things up badly enough the first time and are starting to creep out of the woodwork and and have found a ready ear in Senator McCain.

Just when you would think that United States was going to get out of the business of policing the world and focus on the economy at home, Mr. Saakashvilli of Georgia decided to rile Vladimir Putin one too many times. I am surprised at the absolute naivete of this guy to think that he could pull something off like this and not get the reaction that he got from Russia. Russia had obviously been planning this long and hard, not something I can say about Mr. Saakashvilli and his handlers at the State Dept or his advisers in the McCain campaign.

It is with absolutely amazement that I hear the statements coming from this guy, the repeated references to the wars of the past, evoking the invasions of Prague, Poland and Afghanistan, the references to being the beacon of democracy, a free economy, freedom of press, evoke images of Ahmad Chalabi before the Iraq war and his rounds of the cable news networks in 2002. It was as if he was trying to get the United States and West to start a war with Russia. The script was too good, not to have come out of the neo conservative book who want to use the American military and economic power to advance their idea of democracy.

While I still haven’t completely gotten on board Obama train, the rhetoric coming from Senator McCain scares me even more. I don’t think we can have another four years of these idiots in power.